Verdict: carrot
James Mitchell reviews the minibiographies of Newton and Darwin published by Zebra Press - Newton’s Notebook by Joel Levy and Darwin’s Notebook by Jonathan Clements. Extraordinary, he calls the books:
“God said ‘Let Newton be’ and all was light”, penned Pope. Newton himself was almost as vainglorious, desperate to diminish the achievements of others such as Leibniz (calculus) and Hook (gravity).
Darwin was slightly more modest, but the light his theory (as opposed to hyothesis) cast on natural selection brought its own dark shadows, as in the effects of social Darwinism and eugenics.
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